| English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
....eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Witj And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? ' p. 64. There is then a most furious and unmeasured invective OH Lord Elgin, for his spoliation... | |
| 1811 - 546 pages
...eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit, And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? ' p. 6<t. There is then a most furious and unmeasured invective oa Lord Elgin, for his spoliation... | |
| 1812 - 564 pages
...lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control: Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? " Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! ' All that we know is, nothing can be known.' Why... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...eyeless hole, The gay recess of W isdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control: Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! " All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why... | |
| Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest SOD ! " All that, we know is, nothing can be known."... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 506 pages
...eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! "All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why... | |
| 1812 - 666 pages
...eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit, And Passion's host, that never brooked controul : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, . • People this lonely tower, thin tenement refit ?' p. 6*. . Next to argument, Lord Byron's delight is in daring and bold personification,... | |
| Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...eyeless hole, The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, And passion's host, that never brooked control: Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ— People this lonely tower, this tenement refit?" p. 64. Then, as a substitute for " feeble" orthodoxy, he .recommends to us tins, obviously in his own... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control: Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit) VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! " All that we know is, nothing can be known." Why... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 334 pages
...eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? * VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ? " All that we know is, nothing can be known."... | |
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